Storytelling - Belle and Sebastian

Artist：belle and sebastian

Songs Title：storytelling

Picture a scene in your mind
在你脑海中描绘一幅画面
Looks at all the people and take note of the setting behind
看着所有的人，注意背景
Listen watch and wait
听着，看着，等待着
A plot begins to take shape
一段情节正在展开
There's a story
一个故事诞生了
And then characters will come to you
接着你开始有了角色的构想
Relating events as they choose to
以及与他们有关的事情
But all their words and actions come entirely from you
但是他们所有的台词和行为都由你决定
If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
如果你是个讲故事的人，你可以认为你是没有责任的
And you can lead your characters anywhere you want
你可以任意发展人物情节
You have immunity
你有免疫力
Have you considered the way
你有想过吗
People might react to all the things that your characters say
人们会对你的人物台词有何反应？
And are their actions hand in hand with what you wantto portay
他们的行为跟你想描绘的相符合吗？
Are you sick
你病了吗？
Are you crippled Insane
你瘸了吗，疯了吗？
Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name
表达着欲望又不敢直呼其名？
Are you the one to be blamed
你是那个该被责备的人吗？
Now you're a storyteller you might think you are without responsability
现在你是个讲故事的人，你可以认为你是没有责任的
But in directions actions and words
但是在方向上，行为上和语言上
Cause and effect
原因和影响上
You need consistency
你需要一致性
How can you finish the tale
你怎么结束你的故事？
Lives which have played a part
那些有用的角色
Are summarised from the very start
在故事一开始就已注定
And episodes left out to make it all go our way
还有那些被省略的情节，让故事顺着我们的路子发展
"It's a might big world
这个世界很大
Some of it I've seen
我只见过一部分
But mostly I've only heard
大部分我只是道听途说
And stories are all fiction from their moment of birth"
故事从诞生起就是虚构的
You're just a storyteller
你只是个讲故事的人
You're not trying to escape responsability
你不再试着逃避责任
If we believe you then you're successful
如果我们相信了你，你就是成功的
But you don't make claims of verity
但你不用说实话
You're just a storyteller
你只是个讲故事的人
You're not trying to escape responsability
你不再试着逃避责任
If we believe you then you're successful
如果我们相信了你，你就是成功的
But you don't make claims of verity
但你不用说实话